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title: Ask your wise men what shape I may take that I may always stay and b… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Ask your wise men what shape I may take that I may always stay and be loved by their people.” Who acts: you, wise men, I, people. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 22

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Ask your wise men what shape I may take that I may always stay and be loved by their people.”

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**Who acts:** you, wise men, I, people · **What happens:** ask, shape, take, stay, love · **To what, where:** wise men

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wise men, I, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:61:22
# text = Ask your wise men what shape I may take that I may always stay and be loved by their people.”
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
6	shape	shape	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
14	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | your wise men |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
| 2 | **shape** | present | your wise men |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | may | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stay** | may | I |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **love** | infinitive · passive | men's people |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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